Interesting. I often find that functional code is easier to read and understand because you are encouraged to create small, composable, and reusable functions versus Classes and inheritance.

Moreover, I’ve found that when I start to design my programs to be more pure, and when I push any side-effects to the edges of my program, things like testing, refactoring, reusing and reasoning about code become easier.

Of course, functional programming is not the end-all-be-all. There’s tradeoffs to both approaches, which is perhaps a blog post on it’s own :)

Thanks for reading.